Re: [Vo]:ACS March meeting cold fusion session

[Steven Krivit]

where'd you git that from Jed? looks like the blurb from 2007


At 07:10 AM 2/20/2009, you wrote:

From:

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content

Spring 2009 National Meeting & Exposition

Salt Lake City and County Building
Utah Office of Tourism, Jerry Sintz

237th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
March 22-26, 2009
Salt Lake City, UT

“Cold Fusion” Rebirth? Reports on “Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR)”

In 1989, ‘cold fusion’ was hailed as a scientific breakthrough with the potential to solve the world’s energy problems by providing a virtually unlimited energy source. But subsequent experiments largely failed to replicate the initial findings and the controversial concept was dismissed by most people in the scientific community.

“Although ‘cold fusion’ is considered controversial, the scientific process demands of us to keep an open mind and examine the new results once every few years,” says Gopal Coimbatore, program chair of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Environmental Chemistry, which organized this symposium.

Some researchers say they have new evidence that the phenomena ­ now called ‘low energy nuclear reactions’ ­ has evolved and is supported by rigorous, repeatable experimental data. Nearly a dozen scientists will present their findings during a daylong symposium, “New Energy Technology.”

Fleischmann, Miles Report New Evidence of Excess Heat from Cold Fusion

Some scientists dismissed the original 1989 cold fusion experiments by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann as “bad” science due to alleged errors in calorimetric systems, or heat measurement that could have led to erroneous reports that the excess heat produced was nuclear in origin.

Using more precise calorimetric techniques, a new study by Fleischmann and colleague Melvin Miles reports evidence that the excess heat generated is nuclear and not the result of calorimetric errors. “Our work shows that cold fusion effects are real, but we cannot assess if this excess heat can become useful. Much more research work is needed to answer such questions,” says co-author Miles.